Walking Against the Expulsive Environment

The Raphael Samuel History Centre supported by History Workshop Journal, Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck, University of London, presents:

Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2023

' Walking Against the Expulsive Environment: Refugee Tales and the Politics of Welcome', Professor David Herd

Monday 12 June, 6.00pm followed by a reception

Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

All welcome; registration essential.

In this lecture, Professor Herd will consider the shift in the UK’s political landscape from a Hostile Environment to what should now be called an Expulsive Environment. He discusses the way the policy of indefinite immigration detention features in this changing environment and how such practices can be countered. His talk will draw on his work with the Refugee Tales project and on his forthcoming book, Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human (Oxford University Press, 2023).

David Herd is Professor of Poetry at the University of Kent and Co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales.

This event is part of Migration: a public history festival, a series of lectures, exhibitions, workshops and walks around London supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre

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